LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... performance of the work . Sacred History has been always read with submissive reverence , and an im- agination over - awed and controlled . We have been accustomed to acquiesce in the nakedness and simplicity of the authentic narrative ...
... performance of the work . Sacred History has been always read with submissive reverence , and an im- agination over - awed and controlled . We have been accustomed to acquiesce in the nakedness and simplicity of the authentic narrative ...
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... performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . The same attempt was made to rob Addison of his Cato , and Pope of his Essay on Criticism . In 1647 , the distresses of the royal family required him ...
... performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . The same attempt was made to rob Addison of his Cato , and Pope of his Essay on Criticism . In 1647 , the distresses of the royal family required him ...
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... performance : the numbers are musical , and the thoughts are just . " COOPER'S HILL " is the work that confers upon him the rank and dignity of an original author . He seems to have been , at least among us , the author of a species of ...
... performance : the numbers are musical , and the thoughts are just . " COOPER'S HILL " is the work that confers upon him the rank and dignity of an original author . He seems to have been , at least among us , the author of a species of ...
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... performance at either university was The Grateful Fair , written by Christopher Smart , and represented at Pembroke College , Cambridge , about 1747. E. VOL . I. H This This is sufficiently peevish in asman , who , when MILTON . 49.
... performance at either university was The Grateful Fair , written by Christopher Smart , and represented at Pembroke College , Cambridge , about 1747. E. VOL . I. H This This is sufficiently peevish in asman , who , when MILTON . 49.
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... performance of Salmasius was not dispersed with equal rapidity , or read with equal eagerness , is very credible . He taught only the stale doctrine of authority , and the unpleasing duty of submission ; and he had been so long not only ...
... performance of Salmasius was not dispersed with equal rapidity , or read with equal eagerness , is very credible . He taught only the stale doctrine of authority , and the unpleasing duty of submission ; and he had been so long not only ...
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